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Conservation Biology

Many EEE faculty and graduate students investigate basic concepts of behavioral, evolutionary, population, community and ecosystem ecology to apply these findings in conserving biodiversity. Conservation ecology studies at Notre Dame span a wide range of topics that usually involve field work:

• Habitat fragmentation and extinction of species;

• Invasive species impacts on endemic communities;

• Maintenance of genetic diversity and speciation;

• Restoration of ecological communities and ecosystems;

• Global climate change effects on species distributions;

• Anthropogenic impacts on global biogeochemistry.

Our faculty and graduate students conduct studies throughout the US and world in temperate and tropical terrestrial and aquatic environments. Ongoing studies involve plants, insects, mollusks, crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

The following faculty encorporate conservation into their research. Click on their names below to learn more about activities in their labs.